It’s that time of the year folks! Sydney University IT Society held its fourth Annual General Meeting tonight to elect the executive team for the period from the rest of the year to roughly the same time next year. This is the night that decides the future of SUITS.
So it means I’ll be retiring from my current position as Industry Liaison, and I won’t be running for another position this year. Why? I would like to see more participation from the fresh recruits, and one way is to give a sense of ownership. I’ve been an executive of the Computer Science Undergraduate Society (CSUS), which in 2007 unified and merged with two other societies, and have been an executive since.
Anyway, I’m going to reveal the newly elected executives before it even gets out onto their website!
- President: Stephen Merity
- Vice President: Aaron Cowie
- Treasurer: Adam Petrovic
- Secretary: Karmen Chong
- Events coordinator: James Alexander
- Public relations: Simon Mattes
- Industry Liaison: Adam Gawronski
- Undergraduate representative: Luke Anderson
- Postgraduate Rep:
- IT Officer: Greg Darke
Yes, the IT society actually needs IT infrastructure support. That’s why there’s a dedicated position just to take care of servers and all things technical.
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a programming competition for students in higher education that involves solving a number of interesting problems (roughly 10) within 5 hours using C/C++ and/or Java.
To enter, you must form a team of 3 people, and find a coach. If you ask around your computer engineering or IT school/faculty chances are there’ll be someone organising teams already. If not, ask them to be your team coach and to register you for the regional contest.
See the ACM ICPC South Pacific region site for more details!
For Sydney University, send an email to Taso Viglas or Judy Kay. UNSW: Hossam El Gindy.
Be quick, because the contest is happening this coming Saturday, 12 Sep 09.
Those who make the finals this year will be going to Harbin, China – home to the Ice Festival.
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In such times of the global financial crisis, Microsoft shuffles its internals and is reorganising itself (at the same time saying goodbye to some of its employees). But, business as usual, Microsoft Redmond is still hiring new talent from Australia.
It’s true. Their international recruiting team sent me a flyer about the 3 month SDE/SDET internship at the end of the year. But remember, application closes 22 Jul 09 – that’s less than 3 weeks away!
It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to work for a company of such scale. And note, this is not an internship with Microsoft Australia, it’s with Microsoft in the US! It means you get to go over there, all relocation expenses paid for, etc. It’s worth trying for.
There’ll be a series of interviews involved of course, but even flights to interview site will be paid for. Remember to send your resume to ausrec@microsoft.com.
Spent the afternoon with other SUITS execs planning for the 2009 edition of the annual #!SUITS camp. At this stage, things are looking quite exciting.
From last year, we’re had feedback that going and visiting IT companies around Sydney was quite a valuable experience. So we’re going to keep this going this year, with an added fun component to the camp. Hmm, I’ll still need to speak with companies and see who’ll be willing to take us for a tour of their workplace… *writes into diary*
Also learning from last year, the massive projects that we initially had in mind didn’t entirely work out given such time constraints, so we’ve decided to cut this out in favour of shorter challenges instead.
Here’s the official details we’re going to announce (I know I’m leaking confidential info, but hey it gets around the fixed schedule of newsletters!):
- It’s going to run for 4 days, in the last week of the holidays between semester. (20-23 Jul 09)
- The cost of the camp is yet to be finalised… but al meals will be included in the cost!
Oh, did I mention scavenger hunt?
This Friday, there’ll be a public lecture discussing the Australian Filtering Scheme. It’s been a hot topic for a while now, and it’s gathering momentum. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV program Q&A had recently featured this particular issue last Thursday 26 Mar 09 in Melbourne.
The lecture will be delivered by Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt (my thesis supervisor!) from School of IT, University of Sydney. His comments were also featured in the Herald.
Here’s more details, from the school’s news page:
Speaker: Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney
Time: Friday 3 April 2009, 4:00-5:00pm
Location: The University of Sydney, PNR Building, Farrell Lecture Theatre
Abstract
The Australian government is currently planning to introduce mandatory Internet content filtering. The move would clearly set Australia aside from all other democratic nations in the world. The initial purpose of this scheme was to protect Australian children from accessing unsuitable material such as child pornography.
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Events, USYD | Edmund Tse | 
17 Sep 2009 18:58 | 
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